Women and ironwork: the artistic side of iron

Continuing its activities of promotion and dissemination of Latin American art and culture, the CAF Gallery today opened the exhibition of sculpture “Women and Ironwork," which will be open to the public until the end of November.

The show covers the work of three women who are dedicated to working iron and transforming it into an interesting aesthetic expression, which has received glowing comments from the specialized critics.

Lydia Azout, Colombian, with studies in the David Manzur workshop in Bogota, the Luis Camnitzer study studio in Lucca, Italy, and Instituto de Marmo e D’Arte in Pietrasante, in the same country, has found in iron solid support for her proposal.

Sydia Reyes, Venezuelan, began her study of painting with the well-known artist Pascual Navarro and continued in the Armando Reveron School of Plastic Arts. Later, she studied sculpture with maestro Pedro Barreto, in Barcelona, Anzoátegui state. Since 1990 she has shifted the orientation of her work to urban themes.

Lihie Talmer, also Venezuelan, is architect and graduate in Letters. Her artistic career began in painting and graphic arts in 1981, but since 1990 she has developed sculptures in small format at urban scale. She has participated in national and international galleries in Venezuela, Colombia, Italy and Israel. Her work has been distinguished with prestigious prizes.

This is the third exhibition this year in the CAF Gallery, following the exhibitions “Weavings of tradition, contemporary indigenous basket making" and "Golpe, cuerda y soplo, sounds of the continent."

CAF is an international financial organization formed by 11 Latin American countries: the five of the Andean Community with Brazil, Chile, Jamaica, Mexico, Paraguay and Trinidad and Tobago. Two years ago, CAF opened its Gallery as an expression of the importance of the dissemination of art, science and culture as unifying expressions of universal thought.